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Publisher	The Penguin Press
ISBN	1594202346
Features	ISBN13: 9781594202346 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Format	Hardcover
Author	T. R. Reid
EAN	9781594202346
Label	The Penguin Press
Edition	1
Dewey Decimal Number	362.10973
Studio	The Penguin Press
Number Of Pages	288
Title	The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Publication Date	2009-08-20
Manufacturer	The Penguin Press

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Customer Reviews

Best book on health care

Review by Atila, 2010-08-29

This is an excellent book on health care reform. A very readable explanation of how health care works in different countries. It also explains why American health care is more expensive than in countries with universal coverage, yet leaves many people without adequate care.

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Everyone who questions the need for healthcare reform should read this book!

Review by Patty Holladay, 2010-08-24

T.R. Reid takes the reader on a journey to explore healthcare in many of the industrialized world countries. Through the personal search for a solution to a chronically painful injury, he describes the various approaches to diagnosis and treatment, physical structure of the healthcare system and provision of service, costs associated with healthcare in that country and a comparison of the systems with their successes and failures. This book is very enjoyable, well-written and provides an in-depth look into healthcare in the world.

We find that our healthcare system is very complex, fragmented in that it is comprised of all the various types of systems: The Bismarck Model, the Beveridge Model, The National Health Insurance Model and The Out-of-Pocket Model.

It is important to all future generations that America tackles this need for reform and learns lessons from the other less-than-perfect healthcare systems in the world.

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Eye Opening

Review by Harryk, 2010-08-01

"The Best Healthcare in the World" is what I've been told, but saying it doesn't make it so. This book was recomended by my Cardiologist. It is written in with humor and in language a layman can follow - yet intensely informative. The philosophy of the U.S. health insurance industry is whenever they pay any claim, that, is considered a loss. To collect premiums and pay out nothing, would be their perfect world. Therein lies the crux of the problem.

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Cure for "Healthcare Reform" Blues

Review by S. Gilchrist, 2010-06-09

Here is a cure for the diarrhea of the so-called "Health Care Debate" in America. It is anti-diarrheal no American in his "right" mind has ever imagined trying. Why not study the competition and steal all their good ideas? Like the Japanese with their portable Cat Scan machines who know how to keep costs way down; or the British with their immunization incentives who know how to do public health and preventive medicine; or the Germans with their 300 plus insurance companies who really know know what privitization and "choice" means; or the French who take all the voodoo out of our menage of pricing schedules and can save a fortune on records keeping them "all on this itty bitty little card." As our country slides lower down all the major indices of quality of life in the "developed" world, why not "debate" the specifics of what the rest of the 48 leading nations have been doing for decades and in some cases, over a century? Let's put the "care" back into "healthcare" and start to give a...

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A MUST READ for all interested in health care

Review by JRL, 2010-05-17

This is a must read for everyone interested (pro or con) in the health care debate. It should be required reading for all involved with health care legislation. It is even well written and interesting, neither boring statistics nor a diatribe. READ IT!

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